squireen

/skwahy-reen/US // skwaɪˈrin //UK // (skwaɪˈriːn) //

乡绅,乡下人,乡亲们,乡镇企业

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Chiefly Irish English.
- : the landowner of a small estate; a squire of a small domain.

But the honest, well-to-do farmer had at once too much pride and sagacity to sink into the Squireen.
Squireen′, a gentleman farmer, one almost a squire; Squire′hood, the state or rank of a squire—also Squire′ship.
Since his marriage there was a great change in the rubicund squireen.
He had been christened Edmund, and he was a squireen of the Tipperary village of Knockbrit.
The class of squireen is nearly extinct: 'Joy be with them.'